For all the progress humanity has made in deciphering its past, some ancient scripts remain stubbornly unreadable: The glyphs of the Olmec and Zapotec Mesoamerican civilisations, the cryptic ...

Previous specimens of Vegavis either consisted of skeletons without a skull or partial skull elements, such as a portion of the mandible, leaving much uncertainty regarding the bird’s ...

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3 in the peer-reviewed journal Antiquity. A diagram shows the ancient rune stone puzzle, which has an “unusual mixture of runes and other markings.” The complete rune stone dated between 50 B ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

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And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...